Project description

We are BuddyNS.com , an online service for website reliability.
Our customers publish some data on the Internet: BuddyNS takes this data and replicates it over the world. We do this within few minutes whereas our competitors do this in many hours.
We want an icon for an event with 2 keywords:
* speed, something happening quick and flashy
* unity (their and our data always matching)
We call this event/action "SyncNOW!": The user will be able to press this to ask for immediate synchronization.
We like minimal, and please no text in the icon.
The icon must be suited to have a trivial animated variant (e.g., a part blinking, or rotating, or changing color): we'll show this for several seconds while BuddyNS is processing the user's data.
Please see our website www.buddyns.com to see what colors we are currently using.
Please read Comments for more hints!

Comments

I added #1. The idea would be that the arrows in the "NOW" would rotate as it loads. This is pretty simplistic, but I just want to know if this is the right direction or if you're looking for something not quite so integrated with the text.

Most animations are based on rotation. By checking them out I realize I don't like it, it's distracting.
Focus on the static version. For "animating it", we'll probably make a part of it blinking, or some like that.

One idea based on this: something that looks like an ECG pulse with the sync arrows around.
Also the idea of the flash used by GJRDesign gives a good sense of the "event" happening and the speed of it.

Folks, please keep it minimal, non-obvious, must catch the eye, no text.
Remember it's an event: something magic that happens when you use our service.
Don't spend much time on animations: the icon must be catchy, the animated version will be a trivial edit of it.